Dusty trails of asteroids and comets are spread randomly in our galaxy and as our earth passes by them during its revolution, we come to see meteor showers in our sky. So let’s have a quick moment of education for…
Closest Dwarf Planet to Earth Found to Be Geologically Active
Named after the Roman Goddess of the harvest, the icy dwarf planet Ceres has been found to be geologically active after close examination of NASA’s Dawn spacecraft’s final findings before its death. Ceres, despite being less than 1/3 of the…
Ominous Sunspot Turning Towards Earth Could Impact Our Lives in Ways We Never Knew About
We live on a rocky sphere (kinda) that orbits a big gaseous sphere that can fit 1.3 million of our rocky spheres inside it. But this big ball of gas is hotter than 5500 K on its surface, with the…
‘Made-in-India’ Apps Rush to fill in the Vacuum left by Banned Chinese Apps
The ban on 59 Chinese apps seems to have resulted in an enthusiastic and opportunistic response from Indian app developers as they rush to fill in the void left by the banned app, many of which were highly depended upon…
What could a River full of Star tell us about our Galaxy’s Mysterious Origins?
Our sun makes up over 99.8% of the total mass of our solar system. But the sun is just one star, imagine a ball of around 1 million stars. You probably can’t, and for good reason, because such a ball’s…
EMERGENCE OF TELE-MEDICINE IN THE PANDEMIC
It has been more than six months since a tiny crown-shaped novel coronavirus knocked the human kind which resulted in tearing apart of the health system of the world. Its havoc is still continuing and the end of a pandemic…
TOP BUDGET SMARTPHONES IN INDIA IN 2020
The lockdown due to COVID-19 pandemic has popularized virtual learning, online classes and work from home in India. Moving towards a digitalized future requires us to be technologically equipped. In a situation of doing everything from our homes, smartphones have…
Link Found Between Immune System and COVID-19
Scientists have discovered a link between certain malfunctioning aspects of COVID-infected patients and exhibition of severe symptoms and effects of the virus. Researchers from Yale University in Connecticut examined 113 cases at the Yale-New Haven Hospital, and analysed their varying…
WHEN WILL WE RECEIVE A VACCINE FOR THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC?
The front-runner, Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine trials, has reached its final leg of testing. The novel coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford had achieved safe and promising results in the early stages of the trial. With the increase…
The USA Looking to Harvest Energy from the Moon and Mars, with Nuclear Power
The United States Department of Energy has put in a formal request to build nuclear systems in space. These ‘fission surface power systems’ are aimed at allowing humans to survive and thrive for extended stints in space, especially on unforgiving…
